Thill-support



(No Model.)

A. DELAMATER. THILL SUPPORT.

No. 453,438. A Patented June 2,1891.

t UNITED .STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

ALMOND DELAMATER, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

THlLL-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 453,438, dated June 2, 1891.

Application filed February 18,1891.V Serial No. 381,872. (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that LALMOND DELAMATER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anti-Rattlers and Shaft-Supports; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to improvements in a combined shaft-support and antirattler of the nature shown and described in a former patent granted to me on the 7th of February, 1888, No. 377,605; and the'objeot of the invention is to improve the means for attaching the support to the shaft.

With these and other ends in view the invention consists in the combination, with a bracket secured to the shaft, of a spring-arm having one end fitted in the recess in the thillcoupling and curved to conform to the rearV end of the shaft, and means for detachably connecting the free end of the spring-arm with the fixed bracket.

The invention further consists of the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

To enable others to fully understand the invention, I have illustrated the same in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1- is a side view of a shaft having my improvements attached thereto, showing the shaft elevated. Fig. 2 is a like view, partly in section, showing the position of the various parts when the shaft is lowered. Fig. 3 is a detail View of the link for connecting the spring-arm to the bracket on the shaft, and Fig. 4 is aview of a modified form of my invention.

Like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings, referring to which- A designates the shaft of a vehicle, which is connected at its rear end to an axle a by means of a thill-coupling B, of ordinary construction.

To the upper side of the shaft and at a suitable distance from the coupling B is attached a bracket C, which bracket is provided near one end with a swell or bend c.

D designates the improved spring arm, which preferably is bent upon itself for a considerable portion of its length, as at d. One end of this arm d is curved to conform t0 the rear of the shaft, and said spring-arm is further provided with a U-shaped curved portion E, and the other end of this arm is bent over to form a hook e.. The straight arm j' of an open connecting-link F engages or fits in the hook e, and the link is adapted to befitted around the fixed bracket C on tho shaft A to connect 'the said shaft and spring.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings I have illustrated amodiiied form of my invention, in which the spring-arm D has its upper end provided with an integral hook e', which is adapted to be engaged with or secured around the bracket O.

The operation of my invention is simple and may be brieiiy stated, as follows: The end cZis fitted within the recess ct in the thillcoupling and fits snugly around the rear end of the shaft A. |The spring then extends downwardly and contacts with the lower part of vthe chill-coupling, as shown. The upper end of the spring is pressed in toward the shaft and the link F engaged with the hook c and the fixed bracket O. It will thus be seen that the shaft can be held in any desired position, the link F sliding along the bracket C, as the shaft is lowered, and as the shaft is lowered the strain on the spring D is not increased, as it would be were the bracket made concentric with the shaft. The bracket also serves to prevent the shaft from being lowered too far. The springfitted in the thillconpling and bearing directly against the rear of the shaft and the lower part of the coupling prevents the parts from rattling.

I am aware that changes in the form and proportion of parts may bc made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing the advantages of my invention, and I therefore reserve the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I clailnas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is A l. In a shaft-support, the combination, with the shaft of a vehicle, of a'bracket secured to IOO the shaft and provided near one end with a bent to form a hookand a removable link bend or swell, a spring fitted at one end within adapted to engage with the hook on the spring the thin-coupling and connected at its other and connect the said spring with the fixed end with the xed bracket, substantially as braeket,substantiallyas shown and described.

5 shown and described. In testimony whereof I aix my signature in 15 2. In a shaft-suppo1t,the combination, with presence of two Witnesses. the shaft of avehiele, of a bracketseeured to ALMOND DELAMATER. the shaft and provided near one end With the Vituesses: bend or swell, a spring fitted at one end within JOS. FORREST,

ro the thi11-eonp1ing and having its other end WILLIAM O. BELT. 

